May 23, 2013
12:35 a.m.
I think all the proposals are a mistake (dropping zone.tab, merging timezones, etc.). We may like to pretend the tz database doesn't contain political information, but it simply is not so. We may like to think users don't use TZ idenfiers, but it simply isn't so. Forcing users who are happy with their current identifiers to use other ones (or making the ones they are currently using non-canonical) will simply annoying people and create a lot of stress. I think we are best served with the status quo. ( But of course, I also think that in the US, users should use US/Eastern instead of America/New_York, and that should be presented by tzselect and friends. ) --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson